16TH ANNUAL M&A ADVISOR AWARDS FINALISTS I. SECTOR DEAL OF THE YEAR FINANCIALS DEAL OF THE YEAR (UNDER $250MM) Financing of WLR Automotive WLR Automotive Stonebriar Commercial Finance Madison Street Capital Acquisition of Platinum Data Solutions by Mercury Network Harbor View Advisors Serent Capital Acquisition of Harlow-HRK by Impact Sales LLC, a Portfolio Company of CI Capital Partner Prairie Capital Advisors Dinsmore & Shohl CCI Capital Partners Impact Sale Venbrook Senior Secured Credit Facility from Madison Capital Funding Raymond James Madison Capital DLA Piper Venbrook Dash Financial Merger with LiquidPoint Raymond James GTCR Sale of BISAM Technologies to FactSet Research Systems Raymond James FactSet Acquisition of Jefferson National Financial Corporation by Nationwide Life Insurance Company Raymond James Nationwide Acquisition of HCSB Financial Corporation by United Community Banks, Inc. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Troutman Sanders LLP Hovde Group, LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC FINANCIALS DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $250MM) Merger of UPC Insurance with American Coastal Raymond James Willis Towers Watson TigerRisk Merger of Heritage Oaks Bancorp With Pacific Premier Bancorp Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Holland & Knight Restructuring of SquareTwo Financial Services Corporation and its affiliates Arent Fox LLP Miller Buckfire & Co., L.L.C Foley & Lardner Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc Sale of Bank of the Cascades to First Interstate BancSystem, Inc. Hunton & Williams LLP Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick, P.C. Sale of CardConnect to First Data FT Partners FirstData Acquisition of BNC Bancorp by Pinnacle Financial Partners Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. Banks Street Partners Sandler O’Neill & Partners BNC Bancorp Troutman Sanders LLP Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Arch AIG Merger Cahill Gordon & Reindel Arch Capital GroupClyde & Co. AIG Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Stone Point Acquiring Ownership Stake in Focus Financial Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Stone Point Capital Focus Financial KKR Acquisition of Post Properties by MAA Goodwin Procter LLP King & Spalding ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (UNDER $100MM) Acquisition of Red Wolf Company LLC by Broadwind Energy Inc. Generational Equity Robinson Bradshaw Red Wolf Company Thompson Coburn LLP Broadwind Engery Sale of Dakota Plains Holdings, Inc. to BioUrja Trading LLC Canaccord Genuity Inc. Baker Hostetler BioUrja Trading LLC Acquisition of Assets of Seal Industries, Inc. by PSC Industrial Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP FIDUS Partners Jackson Walker LLP Acquisiton of EDSCO Fastners LLC, a portfolio company of Validor Capital LLC, by LFM Capital Cleary Gull Inc. LFM Capital EDSCO Fasteners, LLC Validor Capital, LLC Acquisition of Coastal Field Services, LP by Primoris Services Corporation Generational Equity Primoris Services Corporation Coastal Field Services Thompson & Knight Sale of Nwestco to WestView Capital Partners Headwaters MB WestView Capital Partners Nwestco LLC Sale of SFI to to Tri-Point Oil & Gas Production Systems, LLC ButcherJoseph & Co. Tri-Point Oil & Gas Production Systems, LLC GreatBanc Trust Company ENERGY DEAL OF THE YEAR (OVER $100MM) Restructuring of Shoreline Energy LLC Arent Fox LLP Imperial Capital Jones Day Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP 2 Restructuring and Sale of Trans Energy, Inc. Gordian Group Opportune Haynes & Boone Acquisition of RockPile Energy Services by Keane Group Inc. Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Keane Group Inc. White Deer Energy LLP Restructuring of Ultra Petroleum Corp., et al. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP Seward & Kissel LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Petrie Partners Securities LLC Kirkland & Ellis LLP PJT Partners LP Restructuring of Samson Resources GCG PJT Partners Inc. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Alvarez & Marsal Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP Garden City Group LLC Restructuring of Abengoa Financial DLA Piper Armstrong Teasdale Thomspon Coburn Hogan Lovells Abengoa Restructuring of Peabody Energy Corporation, et al. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP Lazard Freres & Co. LLC Jones Day KPMG LLP Armstrong Teasdale LLP Ernst & Young LLP FTI Consulting Inc. Jefferies LLC Morrison & Foerster LLP Berkeley Research Group LLC Debt Financing of Fairway Energy Raymond James Riverstone MATERIALS DEAL OF THE YEAR Acquisition of Top Master, Inc. by Clio Holdings Jordan, Knauff & Company Oakland Standard Co. / Clio Holdings Acquisition of Kohl Building Products by SRS Distribution Inc. Generational Equity McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC Kohl Building Products Haynes Boone SRS Distribution Inc The Sale of Middlesboro Mining Inc. SSG Capital Advisors LLC Jackson Kelly Stites & Harbison Frost Miller LLP Debt Financing for Wood-Mode Incorporated SSG Capital Advisors LLC Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young Cozen O'Connor Winter Harbor Paul Hastings LLP Acquisition of Empire Resources, Inc. by Ta Chen Stainless Pipe Co., Ltd. Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Kurosaki & Parker, P.C. Empire Resources, Inc. Acquistion of Walter Energy Canada by Conuma Coal Resources Limited Dentons US LLP Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP KPMG Canada McMillan LLP 3 Acquisition of Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. by Centerra Gold Inc. Stikeman Elliott LLP Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP Thompson Creek Credit Suisse Securities BMO Capital Markets Bank of Nova Scotia Centerra Gold Inc. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Acquisition of Headwaters Inc. by Boral Ltd. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates Acquisition of Stillwater Mining Company by Sibanye Gold Limited FTI Consulting Brunswick Group ENSafrica Jones Day Stillwater Mining Company Holland & Hart BofA Merrill Lynch Acquisition of CLARCOR Inc. by Parker Hannifin Corporation Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Parker Hannifin Jones Day CLARCOR Goldman Sachs & Co. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR ( FROM $10MM-$50MM) The DiSTI Corporation Partnership with Dos Rios Partners and Akoya Capital Partners Capstone Partners LLC Akoya Capital Locke Lord LLP Baker Hostetler LLP Dos Rios Partners DiSTI Corporation Acquisition of solid-serVision by Accenture Raymond James Accenture The merger of Aergo Solutions LLC and Citadel Outsource Group, LLC BCMS Corporate LLC Citadel Outsource Group, LLC Merger of RedZone and Helios and Matheson Analytics Inc. Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Grushko & Mittman PC Acquisition of Datasource Consulting by EXL Clearsight Advisors EXL Growth Equity Investment in Broadway Technology by Long Ridge Equity Signal Hill Sale of Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) business of Sypris Electronics LLC to Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) Mesirow Financial Sypris Solutions Analog Devices Middleton Reutlinger Wilmer Hale Intralinks Sale of Keystone Logic to Zensar Sett & Lucas Nitish Desai & Associates Keystone Logic PWC Zensar KPMG JSA Law Sale of Creative Electronic Systems, a portfolio company of Vinci Capital to Mercury Systems Headwaters MB Mercury Computer Systems Creative Electronic Systems 4 Acquisition of Market Force Information, LLC by Main Street Capital Clearsight Advisors Main Street Capital Corporation INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR ( FROM $50MM-$100MM) Financing of Coretelligent Drake Star Partners Burns and Levinson Proskauer VSS Aquisition of ComNet by ACRE/LLR Partners Carter Morse & Mathias Day Pitney ComNet Holdings, LLC KPMG Access Control Related Enterprises Martin DeCruze Martin LLP Pepper Hamilton LLP LLR Partners, Inc. Brown Butler Merger of Discovia with Lighthouse eDiscovery, a portfolio company of Spire Capital MHT Partners Lighthouse eDiscovery Spire Capital Discovia Majority Recapitalization of Utegration with Riordan, Lewis & Haden Equity Partners GulfStar Group PKF Texas Utegration, Inc. Lockton RLH Equity Andrews Kurth Ernst & Young Acquisition of Vector Software by Vector Informatik Capstone Partners LLC KANZLEI DR. ERBEN RECHTSANWÄLTE Vector Informatik GMBH Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC Vector Software Acquisition of F24 AG by Armira Raymond James Amira Acquisition of Starpoint Solutions by Yoh Sett & Lucas Day & Zimmermann Startegic Investment in Infutura by Norwest Venture Partners Dresner Partners Investment Banking Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Norwest Venture Partners AB Private Credit Investors Goodwin Procter LLP Bill Hickey & Associates, Inc. Ernst & Young LLP Mueller Acquisition of Core Services by Syntax Systems TM Capital KPMG Novacap Nelson Mullins Core Services TD Securities Syntax Choate RSM Partnership between NovaCopy, Inc. and Trivest Partners, LP Chartwell Financial Advisory, Inc. EY Trivest Cannon Wright Blount Akerman LLP Farris Bobango Branan, PLC NovaCopy, Inc. 5 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEAL OF THE YEAR ( FROM $100MM-$1B) Sale of The Infosoft Group, LLC to Gauge Capital Cleary Gull Inc. Quarles & Brady LLP Infosoft Group Inc. Ropes & Gray LLP Gauge Capital SVA Houlihan Lokey Growth Investment in Tenstreet by Spectrum Equity Capstone Partners LLC Tenstreet Spectrum Equity Riddle & Wimbush Choate Hall & Stewart LLP Sale of Paysimple to Providence Equity Raymond James Providence Equity Sale of Granicus Inc. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Sale of Company A to a Large Private Equity-Backed Acquirer Objective Capital Partners Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Sale of BISAM Technologies to FactSet Research Systems Raymond James FactSet Acquisition of Tangoe Inc. by Marlin Equity Partners Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Marlin Equity